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UNITED NATIONS, July 16-- A Chinese envoy said Monday that efforts must be made to promote fair development to ensure equal opportunities. "We must promote fair development to ensure equal opportunities. All countries should be part of global development," said Chinese ambassador to the UN Ma Zhaoxu at the High-level Side Event Addressing Unbalanced and Inadequate Development to Achieve the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) on the sidelines of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. "We must improve global economic governance and increase representation and voice of developing countries to allow equal participation in rules-making," he said. The side event, co-hosted by the Chinese delegation to the United Nations together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), was aimed to discuss how to best address unbalanced and inadequate development, which, as Ma put it, "is highly important for implementing the 2030 Agenda and fostering a global community with a shared future." "Unbalanced and inadequate development is a common challenge facing countries across the world. To achieve shared prosperity, countries need to work together to pursue fair, open, comprehensive and innovative development," said the ambassador. "We must pursue open development to benefit everyone. Countries should open up to enable factors of production to move more freely worldwide," he added. | 
